Cartographer's Annuals

Cartographer's Annuals are collections of premium creative content to expand your map-making horizons.

Each volume delivers a diverse array of material, including new drawing styles, unique symbol sets, curated map collections, and specialized tools for specific types of maps. Every Annual also icludes a comprehensive guide explaining the techniques used, helping you build skills and deepen your mapping mastery.

Volume 14 Content

• Map Pack: Crossroads Inn
• Map and Tutorial Pack: Alexandria-class Starship
• Style Pack: Ferrari's Style
• Style Pack: Inked Dungeons
• Style Pack: Retro Starships
• Style Pack: Ryecroft Town
• Style Pack: Serpentine Streets
• Style Pack: Spectrum Overland 1
• Style Expansion Pack: Spectrum Overland 2
• Style Pack: Tagkrammer Isometric
• Symbol Pack: City Cliffs 1
• Symbol Pack: City Cliffs 2
• Tutorial Pack: Watabou Cities

Map Pack: Crossroads Inn

A collection of five beautiful battle maps for you, created by Christina Trani. The maps ready for you to use, and if you own Symbol Set 4 to modify and expand at your leisure.

The accompanying 6-page mapping guide teaches how to use grids of any style and size on these or other battle maps, how print them to scale even on a small home printer, and how to export them to use in a virtual tabletop environment.

The map pack Crossroads Inn includes:

• 5 battle maps by Christina Trani (FVCW and PNG format)
• 1 6-page mapping guide

Map and Tutorial Pack: Alexandria-class Starship

A detailed set of deckplans for an explorer-type starship (Alexandria-class in Pelgrane Press' Ashen Star rpg) created with Cosmographer 3, as well as a large set of bitmaps for modern and sci-fi maps.

Each deck is rendered in loving detail and is accompanied by a description of the various features, functions and layout. The plans come exported in a variety of hires formats for immediate use at the table or in virtual tabletops, and can of course be edited and expanded upon in CC3+.

The map and tutorial pack Alexandria-class Starship includes:

• 1 starship exterior drawing (FCW and PNG format)
• 1 starship deckplan drawing (FCW and PNG format)
• 1 6-page starship description
• 186 bitmap fills
• 2 bitmap fill overview/insertion drawings (imperial and metric)
• 1 4-page tutorial guide
• 1 new true type font

Style Pack: Ferrari's Style

Sue Daniel has painstakingly recreated the style of early modern cartographer Joseph de Ferraris and we are proud to present it.

Dozens of beautiful fill styles and symbols in amazing detail define the first large-scake systematic mapping in Western Europe executed by Ferraris and you'll be able to draw your own maps in this unique style.

The style pack Ferraris Style includes:

• 1 new city (local area) drawing style
• 85 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 34 bitmap fills
• 269 new bitmap symbols in 6 catalogs
• 1 12-page tutorial and mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 map legend part (PNG and FCW format)
• 5 new Symbols Along and Symbols in Area settings
• 2 new effect settings
• 1 new true type font

Style Pack: Inked Dungeons

A new dungeon style based on ink-and-paper cartography by the likes of Dyson Logos and MonkeyBloodDesign.

The style allows you to produce simple and effective but also beautiful black and white dungeon layouts. The included 6-page mapping guide takes you through the process of drawing a complete dungeon.

The style pack Inked Dungeons includes:

• 1 new dungeon drawing style
• 36 new drawing tools
• 50 new vector symbols
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 8 new hatch styles
• 1 6-page mapping guide
• 2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 true type font
• 2 new effect settings

Style Pack: Retro Starships

A new starship deckplan style inspired by the work of Free League Publishing (and used with their permission). The style lets you create small to medium starship layouts in a retro-look reminiscent of an old computer screen readout.

The style works independently of Cosmographer 3, and allows you to build great starships for for gritty, dangerous and fairly hard SF settings. The accompanying mapping guide takes you through the design process of such a deckplan.

The style pack Retro Starships includes:

• 1 new SciFi deckplan drawing style "Retro Starships"
• 2 new templates (metric and imperial)
• 2 new example maps (FCW and JPG)
• 39 new drawing tools
• 22 new symbols in 1 catalog
• 3 new bitmap fills
• 2 new effect settings (metric and imperial)
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Ryecroft Town

A new city style created by Glynn Seal of MonkeyBloodDesign, providing a wonderful new full color look for town and city maps based on this Ryecroft cemetery design.

The "Ryecroft Town" drawing style allows you to produce beautiful town and city maps, making full use of the city commands incorporated into CC3+ with the recent Update 25. And as usual the accompanying mapping guide provides a full introduction to using the style.

The style pack Ryecroft Town includes:

• 1 new city drawing style
• 75 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 86 new bitmap symbols
• 40 new bitmap fills
• 1 6-page tutorial and mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 2 new effect settings
• 3 new street settings
• 9 new house settings
• 18 new true type font by MonkeyBloodDesign (2 installed, 16 in Annual folder)

Style Pack: Serpentine Streets

A new style for Venice-like cities with lots of canalas and islands, based on the map of Serpentine by Jerôme Huguenin for the Swords of the Serpentine RPG by Pelgrane Press.

The city style uses vector house symbols and street styles for a dense tangle of roada and alleys, with symbols for bridges and boats to create that maritime atmosphere. The included mapping guide goes through all the steps necessary to create a Serpetine style city map.

The style pack Serpentine Streets includes:

• 1 new city style with 42 drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 136 re-worked vector symbols in 1 catalog
• 4 new bitmap symbols
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 1 Example Map (FCW and PNG format)
• 2 new effect settings
• 1 new house setting
• 2 new random street settings

Style Pack: Spectrum Overland 1

A wonderful new overland style by Master Mapper Sue Daniel. Sue designed and rendered detailed models of mountains, trees and stuctures and turned these into symbols for CC3+.

Being a fully self-contained style and containing more than 150 symbols, it will still be expanded by second issue. This will give you a comprehensive selection of textures, symbols and tools in a highly detailed bitmap style.

The style pack Spectrum Overland includes:

• 1 new overland drawing style (Spectrum Overland) by Sue Daniel
• 2 new drawing templates (imperial and metric)
• 46 new drawing tools
• 169 new bitmap symbols
• 24 new bitmap textures
• 1 new effect settings
• 5 new Symbols in Area settings
• 4 new Fill with Symbols settings
• 3 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 5-page mapping guide

Style Expansion Pack: Spectrum Overland 2

Sue Daniel expands the Spectrum Overland style from with more symbols and tools in her beautiful and unique style.

The Spectrum style has been a fan favourite and we are happy to oblige its fans with more options for various additional climate types.

The expansion pack Spectrum Overland 2 includes:

• 1 overland drawing style expansion (Spectrum Overland) by Sue Daniel
• 2 updated drawing templates (imperial and metric)
• 8 new drawing tools
• 228 new bitmap symbols
• 2 new bitmap textures
• 6 new Symbols in Area settings
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 3-page mapping guide

Style Pack: Tagkrammer Isometric

An isometric floorplan style by a new contributor to the Annual: Kawe Weissi-Zadeh of Westfalia Miniatures.

The Tagkrammer Isometric style is a clear and beautiful set of isometric bitmap symbols that let you build interiors of small and medium buildings.

The style pack Tagkrammer Isometric includes:

• 1 isometric floorplan style (Tagkrammer Isometric) by Kawe Weissi-Zadeh
• 2 new drawing templates (imperial and metric)
• 14 new drawing tools
• 100 new bitmap symbols
• 3 new bitmap textures
• 1 example map (JPG and FCW format)
• 1 6-page mapping guide

Symbol Pack: City Cliffs 1

A set of symbols for easily drawing precipitous cliffs in your city maps. Sue Daniel created this catalog of connecting symbols along with special features like gaps, stack, ascending roads and waterfalls.

The symbols come integrated with the Jon Roberts Cities style, which is included in CC3+, but can also be added to any other city style easily. The accompanying mapping guide not only explains how to do that, but also gives a step-by-step overview of the workings of the connecting symbols.

The symbol pack City Cliffs includes:

• 74 new cliff symbols in 1 catalog
• 10 New drawing tools
• 1 8-page mapping guide
• 1 FCW Parts file
• 2 Example Maps (FCW and JPG format)
• 2 upgraded Jon Roberts Cities templates (imperial and metric)
• 1 new catalog setting for Jon Roberts Cities

Symbol Pack: City Cliffs 2

Two more connecting cliff symbol catalogs to go with the previous "City Cliffs" pack by Sue Daniel.

City Cliffs 2 provides catalogs with limestone and sandstone cliffs, with each containing 74 unique symbols that connect to each other and form continuous cliff lines.

The symbol pack City Cliffs 2 includes:

• 148 new connecting symbols in two catalogs by Sue Daniel
• 4 new bitmap fills (imperial and metric)
• 2 example maps (in JPG and FCW format)

Tutorial Pack: Watabou Cities

A combined tutorial and style pack, importing maps from Watabou's amazing medieval Fantasy city generator into CC3+, applying a City Designer 3 style and expanding it with CC3+'s tools.

The pack Watabou Cities contains instructions on how to convert an svg file into an import CC3+ can understand, templates to import the into, and the intructions, tools and bitmaps to convert the result into a beautiful CC3+ map.

The style and tutorial pack Watabou Cities includes:

• 1 new city drawing style
• 30 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 50 bitmap fills
• 1 5-page tutorial and mapping guide
• 2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new effect setting